August 2017 - Badger Books Catalogue

About this catalogue

Our new catalogue contains 230 items: Tom Ripley and Frank Bascombe sagas, both complete; Samuel Beckett on Imagination, signed; the Polish versions of New Guinea and Jane Campion’s The Piano; Joe Brainard’s I Remember, complete; The Songlines, signed by Bruce Chatwin; an inventory of forgeries from 400 BC onwards; three books of the offline world; Cloudstreet, first hardcover edition; Alan Davidson’s gift to mourners at his funeral; Andrew Sayers and Bill Henson, inscribed books to Betty Churcher; a little of the Magna Carta reprinted in 2015; Cat at the Window, instructions for play; two books of military slang, published 57 years apart; Winnie the Pooh in Latin; Joyce's biographers cross paths; Gravity’s Rainbow squared; Zeno Cosini’s first appearance in America; four spectacular copies of World War One novels; The Twyborn Affair signed by Patrick White; and three Golems.

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Arno, Peter

Sizzling PlatterLondon: Robert Hale. First English edition., [1949]. 113 cartoons and illustrations -'Faces that Pass in the Bar', nudes, and portraits - most from The New Yorker and, if not, of that style.

Very good in good dustwrapper missing a piece from the top centre of the front panel and the crown and base of the spine.Enquire about this book

Art Brut Collection ABCDPrague: Les Editions. First edition, 2006. Exhibition catalogue from the Prague City Gallery, June to September 2006, English text. 217 reproductions, most colour; essays, biographies of the artists, history of this most idiosyncratic of styles; 1,500 copies, 700 in English, 800 in Czech.

Bronsteen, Earl

Contemporary Art Appreciation 101 - How to Understand What's Contemporary Art and What's SnotBoca Raton, FL: The Artist. First and only edition, 2006. The late photographer and conceptual artist's magnum opus and sequel to his earlier How to Become a Famous Contemporary Artist. The textbook for the author’s Online School of Fine Arts containing course outline, fee schedule, FAQs, student orientation lesson, course requirements, details of graduate diploma made on double-ply soft paper; then onto the course in 300+pp., picking jargon apart, identifying self-serving relationships, and containing a combination of inserts – greeting cards, a packet of No Doze, labels, air freshener, condom, merit certificates, DIY snow globe - as well as foldouts, flaps, pop-ups, manipulated and tipped-in images, diversions and breaks between lessons; and analysis of sorts of the work, and market prices, of William Wegman, Dana Hoey, Marina Abramovic, Nobuyoshi Araki, Doris Salcedo, among many others; interspersed with lessons on Performance Art, Biennales, Sex and Nudity and much others. Author’s photograph and details on inside rear cover, with a link to his website (now gone, bits and pieces via Waybackmachine), and wearing his popular “will exchange this book for food t-shirt”.

Printed wrappers. Tabbed fore-edges, giraffe’s head and tail silk marker laid in. All fine. 400 copies.Enquire about this book

Ashbery, John

100 Multiple-Choice QuestionsNew York: Adventures in Poetry. First American edition thus, 2001. Originally published in 'Adventures in Poetry' in 1970. Question 1: 'Thinking can help to solve a problem because? A) problems exist only in the mind B) problems must be taken seriously C) mind triumphs over matter D) not to think would be to avoid the problem E) no problem can be completely solved anyway [or] F) it is our duty to think our way out of problems'.

Asatiani, Georgii I.

Na Szlakach Australii [Roads of the Fifth Continent][Warsaw]: Gruzinska Wytwornia, 1965. Original poster by Liliana Baczewska for a Polish documentary about Australia. A modestly designed poster that, even allowing for the no. of Poles who emigrated here, does not visualise Australia beyond a title over a printed map.

Shead, Garry

What Are the Wild Waves Saying?[Sydney]: [Watters Gallery], 1974. Garry Shead's first exhibition inspired by D.H.Lawrence, specifically the novelist's 1929 exhibition; note by the artist, essay by Gary Catalano; 28 works listed with prices, 12 after D.H.Lawrence.

Crumlin, Rosemary and Anthony Knight

Aboriginal Art and SpiritualityNorth Blackburn, Victoria: Collins Dove. First Australian edition, 1991. Exhibition catalogue surveying contemporary Aboriginal Art. Inscribed by Rosemary Crumlin to Roy Churcher in the year of publication; with an accompanying letter from her to Churcher and a note from Anthony Knight also to Churcher all laid in.

Sayers, Andrew

Australian ArtOxford: Oxford University Press. First Australian edition, 2001. Beginning with Aboriginal Art, then, in overlapping chronological chapters from 1788 until 1999. From the publisher's History of Art series. Inscribed by the author to Betty Churcher, and with Betty Churcher's bookplate laid in.

Keneally, Thomas and others

AustraliaLondon: Royal Academy of Arts, London. First English edition, 2013. Exhibition catalogue. The most recent exhibition of Australian Art in England. Five sections: Country Aboriginal Art by Wally Caruana and Franchesca Cubillo, Land and Landscape: the Colonial Encounter 1800-1880 by Ron Radford, Art Nation: Australian Landscape 1880-1920 by Anne Gray, Australian Landcape: Pathways into the Modern World 1920-1950, Elizabethan Post Colonial 1950-2013 by Daniel Thomas; Dead Heart / Live Heart by Thomas Keneally; artists' biographies, chronology, 205 reproductions, most full page and most colour.

Bail, Murray

CamouflageLondon: The Harvill Press. First English edition, 2001. A hybrid English edition: 'The Seduction of My Sister' and 'Camouflage' of the Australian edition with 'The Drover's Wife', an earlier, much anthologised story, added.

Haftmann, Werner

Banned and Persecuted - Dictatorship of Art Under HitlerCologne: Du Mont Buchverlag. First edition, 1986. Edited by Berthold Roland, 'Reconstruction - Reparation: a Report' by Leopold Reidemeister, foreword by Helmut Kohl. The history of 'the defamation and persecution of art from 1933 to 1945' in Germany: chapters on artists in exile - including Max Beckmann, Oskar Kokoschka, Rolf Nesch, Kurt Schwitters, Paul Klee - and, brilliantly from this perspective: the inner emigration of artists including Kathe Kollwitz, Otto Dix, Ernst Barlach, and many regional artists; chronology, biographies of artists, 114 colour reproductions, many full page, and twice as many again b/w of paintings, individuals and events. English text.

Barnes, Julian

A History of the World in 10 1/2 ChaptersBerkeley, CA: Black Oak Books, 1989. The author on Love, from very near the end of 'Parenthesis', the unnumbered chapter of A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters. The passage continues, 'It will go wrong, this love; it probably will.' An extract printed and published by the Berkeley bookshop for a reading by Barnes; and signed by him.

Lipman, Ross

NotfilmNew York: Milestone, 2015. The two original American posters for Ross Lipman's 'kino-essay' documenting one of the not so unlikely collaborations in movie history. The on camera star receives the most prominence, the close-up poster points to the end of Film when O (Buster Keaton), will realise that he is perceived and horror sets in.

Gordon, Mel

Voluptuous Panic - the Erotic World of Weimar BerlinVenice, CA: Feral House. First American edition, 2000. An illustrated guide to being up late in Berlin ninety years ago: addresses and details of clubs, publications, handbills, performances, other activities - photographs and printed ephemera to reconstruct a historical period.

Bjerre, Jens

Nowa Gwinea - Ostatni Ludozercy[Warsaw]: Nordisk Films, 1957. Original Polish poster for Jens Bjerre's Danish documentary, New Guinea - the Last Peoples (The Last Cannibals is the English title of his book of these years) made during his period living with the Kukukuku tribe in the mid 1950s. New Guinea society and flora and fauna would have been a test even for Polish graphic designers and Eryk Lipinski sticks with the outline of the country, turns it on its side, and makes it the background for a previously unseen face.

Bowles, Paul

YallahNew York: McDowell, Obolensky. First American edition, 1957. Photographs of northwest Africa by Peter W. Haeberlin. Introduction by Paul Bowles, "How much we could learn from them [African people] about man’s relationship to the cosmos, about his conscious connection with his own soul. Where we could learn why, we try to teach them the all-important how, so that they may become as rootless and futile and materialistic as we are."

Bowles, Paul

Photographs - How Could I Send a Picture into the Desert?Zurich: Scalo. First edition, 1994. Edited by Simon Bischoff in collaboration with the Swiss Foundation for Photography. Landscapes, travels, portraits, social life, 100+ full page reproductions; transcripts of interviews with Bowles in Tangier, 1989-1991.

Hutchins, Edward designs

The Mystery of the Magic Box - an Open and Shut CaseAnchorage, AL: Anchorage Museum of History and Art. First American edition, 1995. Exhibition catalogue. The history, form and function of the humble box. Accordion fold containing colour illustrations of exhibits, with die cuts, pop-ups, gatefolds; “The Art of Making Boxes” by Ron Glowen; 56pp.

Brainard, Joe

I RememberNew York: Angel Hair. First American editions, 1970-1973. Four volumes: I Remember, I Remember More (this copy inscribed to Burt Britten, of the Strand Bookstore, by the author), More I Remember More and I Remember Christmas. The complete original sequence of the author’s masterpiece. The first three vols. published by Anne Waldman, poet and Brainard collaborator, in editions of 700, 800 and 700 copies respectively. The final, subject specific volume, with illustrations by the author, published by the Museum of Modern Art in 1973. The artist and writer’s first solo books. I Remember was popular from publication, no less than three sequels in three years, and now, 40+ years on, after absorbing imitations by individuals and appropriation by writing courses, is maintaining a modest publishing momentum – Brainard collected, rearranged, and added to these initial versions for a one volume edition published by Full Court Press (1975), Penguin reprinted this edition (1995), so did Granary (2001), it was included in the Library of America’s Collected Joe Brainard and Notting Hill Editions published the first English edition (both 2012) – while the appeal of what Joe Brainard did with his combination of ingredients remains as seductive and mysterious as ever.

Breton, Andre

The Lost StepsLincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. First American edition, 1996. Twenty-four essays and other prose pieces written between 1917 and 1923: Duchamp, De Chirico, Jarry, Apollinaire and Manifestos.

Burgess, Anthony

Earthly PowersLondon: Hutchinson. First English edition, 1980. So well placed in the opening sentence stakes - 'It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.' - that the narrator himself can't resist endorsing it a few lines further on as 'an arresting opening'.

Celan, Paul

Wolfsbohne / Wolf ’s BeanBirmingham and New York: Delos Press and William Drenttel. First edition, 1997. Translated and introduced by Michael Hamburger. Parallel German English text of the first publication of this long poem originally intended for The Nomansrose (1963), and removed by Celan. Designed and printed by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press. The deluxe issue. One of fifty numbered copies, specially bound, and signed by the translator.

Celan, Paul

Wolfsbohne / Wolf ’s BeanBirmingham and New York: Delos Press and William Drenttel. First edition, 1997. Translated and introduced by Michael Hamburger. Parallel German English text of the first publication of this long poem originally intended for The Nomansrose (1963), and removed by Celan. Designed and printed by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press. 250 numbered copies.

Printed letterpress on Zerkall mould-made paper. Plain wrappers, sewn. Fine in hand-marbled dustwrapper.Enquire about this book

Shefrin, Jill edits

One Hundred Books Famous in Children's LiteratureNew York: The Grolier Club. First American edition, 2014. Exhibition catalgoue. From Orbis Sensualium Picts (1658) to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997), 98 other books in between, all illustrated; plus four essays on Children's Literature.

Miles, W.J. and, at the end, P.R. Stephensen edit

The PublicistSydney: W.J. Miles, 1936-1942. A complete run of The Publicist: 69 issues, published monthly between July 1936 and 1 March 1942. Founded and edited by W.J. Miles, contributions by him as John Benauster, Alcedo Gigas, chief writer P.R. Stephensen, also writing as “The Bunyip Critic” sometimes as Rex Williams, other contributors: George Farwell, Xavier Herbert, Randolph Bedford, Furnley Maurice, C.Hartley Grattan. Sold initially by subscription and over the counter in Sydney, it was available in bookstores in Melbourne, Canberra and Brisbane by the end of 1937. The position of The Publicist on contemporary issues heated up through its life and has been summarised as pro-monarchy, pro-fascist, pro-Aboriginal, anti-British, anti-communist, anti-Semitic and, from late 1938, it was the common ground for those keen to create an Australia First Party, #47 June 1940 contains the notorious “The Publicist’s 50 Points of Policy for an Australia First Party after the War” or, according to Barbara Winter, it began as “a culturally nationalist journal [and] changed into a politically Nationalist one.” It also had a hard, satirical edge, #1 carried two advertisements for “Wanted, 500,000 young Australians, must be physically fit, perfect in wind and limb, for use in Europe as soil-fertiliser. Apply stating nitrate content of the body, to No.10 Downing Street, London, England.” And “Wanted, urgent. Large he-men from the Australian back-blocks, nothing under six feet, deep-breathers, chest expansion ten inches, no brains, to act as lethal-gas inhalers in Europe. Good pay prior to death, 6/- per day inflated currency. Apply Baldwin, Bruce and Co., London.” And an undergraduate one as well, #1 prints a letter from Capt. James Cook, R.N. retd., “Why do Australians refer to China and Japan as ’The Far East’? On every map of the world that I have seen, these countries are ‘The Near North’, to Australia” Miles died in January 1942, The Publicist continued until March that year when Stephensen and others were interned.

Printed wrappers. #1-30 in 5 bound vols., #31-69 loose. The loose issues are all stapled, some staples are rusted, some issues with worn edges and darkened covers. #1 has a handwritten text inside the front cover. The set overall very good or better.
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Sydney Film FestivalSydney: Sydney Film Festival, 1954-2017. A complete set of programs from The Sydney Film Festival, 1954-2017. From the first: June 11-14, 1954, held at four venues across Sydney University, 9 movies screened, to full houses, or 1,200 tickets sold at a guinea each, to 2017, held at eleven venues across Sydney and suburbs, 288 movies screening from 59 countries. In between the Festival has had twelve directors, David Stratton the longest serving from 1966-1983, Sylvia Lawson and Robert Connell were co-directors in 1959; numerous venues: the State, from 1974 and counting is the longest, various halls at the University of Sydney from 1954-1967, the Wintergarden at Rose Bay from 1968-1973, the Orpheum at Cremorne in 1967 and again in the last few years. The programs provide a mini-history of movies during the period of the Festival: censorship battles, notably from c.1966-1970, again with Ken Park in 2003; the inclusion of movies from countries outside Europe, America and Japan; the retrospectives of movies previously unseen in Australia; advertisements for Sydney cinemas now all closed or demolished as well as clubs, restaurants, movie companies, bookshops, film processors and travel agents, most as well long gone in the digital age. The programs contain similar information: credits, synopses, schedules for screenings, in various formats that mirror the changing status of the festival, the no. of movies screened, and the nature of the times. Or, modest pamphlets grew into glossy programs and into tabloid newspapers. Many contain loose sheets, often in the pre-digital age, detailing program changes, or other information about movies, meetings or other events.

Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Edges frayed in some of the early, fragile vols., the first is particularly frail, some with brief annotations; all very good or better. For the 64vols. plus anniversary editions and loose printed ephemera.Enquire about this book

[Wigfield, Miles]

Cricket on the BeachQuenington, Cirencester: Reading Room Press. First English edition, 2016. An encounter with Herbert Sutcliffe on an Isle of Man beach in 1941; wood engraving by David Dobson; introduced, 'This story was told to me by my step-son's father-in-law Robin Blackburn. His parents had a holiday home in Port St Mary, Isle of Man. Robin, aged four, is with his father and elder brothers Paul & Martin. The year is 1941.'

Devanny, Jean

Out of Such FiresNew York: The Macaulay Company. First American edition, 1934. The author's first novel to be set in Australia, reputedly based on her experiences working as a maid on an isolated sheep station. The dustwrapper blurb has other ideas, '... an English girl, a writer in search of new experiences. She finds it ... when she enters the Jerumba sheep station as a servant. For there she crashes against the antipathy of the vilest female character that any author has yet conceived - a walking exhibition of neurotic bestiality that is neither fantastic nor overdrawn.' The only edition.

A brilliant copy. The cover illustration of the dustwrapper invokes the imagery of Mary ascending into Heaven, except that this woman is surrounded by flames, and four hands, or parts thereof, reaching out to her. Fine in dustwrapper, a little rubbed on the rear panel.Enquire about this book

Dickinson, Emily

Hope is the ThingMurrumbateman, NSW: The Vagantes Press, 2013. A local printing of an Emily Dickinson poem written c.1861 and first published in book form thirty years later. 50 numbered copies, the first publication of the Press. Hand-set and printed by Michael Richards on Fabriano Rosaspina.

Dobson, Rosemary

Folding the SheetsWarners Bay, NSW: Picaro Press. First Australian edition, 2004. A selection of Rosemary Dobson's poetry for schools, edited by Rob Riel. Laid in is an autograph note, signed from Rosemary Dobson to Betty Churcher, 11th August 2004, giving the background to, and her experience of, the publication; some chat and concluding, 'I am busy but, sadly, not very productive.'

Donoso, Jose

The Obscene Bird of NightNew York: Alfred A. Knopf. First American edition, 1973. The consciousness of Humberto Penaloza, in reduced cirsumstances, towards the end of his life, and inhabited by creatures, promised by the title, from the '... unsubdued forest where the wolf howls and the obscene bird of night chatters'.

Elliott, Sumner Locke

Water Under the BridgeSouth Melbourne: Macmillan. First Australian edition, 1977. Beginning at the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1932; inscribed by the author to [Geoff and Ninette] Dutton and family in 1978.

Ely, Joe

Bonfire of RoadmapsAustin, TX: University of Texas Press. First American edition, 2007. Poetry, songs, fragments, reflections and illustrations constructed from the touring journals of the West Texas singer songwriter.

McKenna, Kristine edits

She - Works by Wallace Berman and Richard PrinceLos Angeles: Michael Kohn Gallery. First American edition, 2009. Exhibition catalogue. Separate essays on the two artists by Kristine McKenna, 33 questions to Richard Prince by McKenna; and 100+ reproductions of the exhibition where both artists work their own obsessions onto their respective generations' images of women, erotica and pornography.

Baum, Kelly, Andrea Bayer and Sheena Wagstaff

Unfinished - Thoughts Left UnsaidNew York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. First American edition., 2016. Exhibition catalogue. The first of two exhibitions at the Met Breuer, aka the old Whitney. 200+ reproductions, 16 essays, 5 interviews with artists: unfinished artworks of all varieties from the Renaissance to the present come into the spotlight.

Printed boards cloth spine. Fine as issued without dustwrapper. The illustration is the handbill that accompanied the catalogue.Enquire about this book

Fisher, M.F.K.

Answer in the Affirmative and The Oldest ManVineburg, CA: Engdahl Typography. First American edition thus, 1989. Two stories, both originally published in The New Yorker, both to do with ageing, one with sex; illustrations by Roger Barr; #51/200 copies signed by the author.

Davidson, Alan edits

Oxford Symposium 1983: Food in Motion - the Migration of Foodstuffs and Cookery TechniquesStanningley, Leeds: Prospect Books. First English edition, 1983. Two volumes of Proceedings. Food as well as people on the move across the centuries: twenty-four pieces including, local relevance, 'Australia's Food Culture Originated in England' by Lionel Stone and 'Australia's One Continuous Picnic' by Michael Symons and, a wider net, 'The Spread of Kebabs and Coffee: Two Isalmic Movements', 'Spaghetti - But Not on Toast: Italian Food in London', 'The Cornish Pasty in Northern Michigan'; reports on activities of working groups, details of participants and contributors.

Schwabe, Calvin W.

Unmentionable CuisineCharlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia. First American edition, 1979. History and origins of the animals that we have to chosen to eat for protein, followed by recipes for their currently taboo areas, then a selection from the organs of the other animals who are waiting to find their way onto our plates. Organised by animal, each with recipes for the taboo areas, - 'Calf Lung Stew', 'Pig's Stomach and Abalone', 'Sheep's Feet with Yoghurt', 'Swabian Snails', 'Red-Ant Chutney' - from around the world; inscribed by the author.

Soyer, Alexis

A Culinary CampaignLewes, East Sussex: Southover Press. Second English edition, 1995. Introduction by Michael Barthorp and Elizabeth Ray. Soyer's account of his work during the Crimean War attempting to improve diet and catering for the soldiers in the British Army; first published in 1857.

Ford, Richard

Frank BascombeLondon and New York: Vintage, Collins Harvill, Alfred A. Knopf, Ecco. First American editions and first English edition, 1986-2014. Five volumes. Frank Bascombe, complete to date. 'Frank is Ford’s Everyman, a disenchanted, rueful and humorous witness to his country’s faltering resolve at the close of the American century and the opening of a new and newly menacing millennium. … He recognises the essentially contingent and slippery nature of our being here, and the necessity to manoeuvre our way through the world as best we can.' - John Banville. Comprising the first American and English editions of The Sportswriter, both signed by the author, first American editions of Independence Day, also signed by Ford, The Lay of the Land and Let Me Be Frank With You.

The Sportswriter: American edition, pictorial wrappers, extremities evenly tanned, very good; English edition, top edge dusty, else fine in dustwrapper; the remaining three volumes all fine in dustwrappers. The five volumesEnquire about this book

Frame, Janet

The Pocket MirrorNew York: George Braziller. First American edition, 1967. The novelist's one collection of poems published during her lifetime. Inscribed by her to Bill Brown and Paul Wonner - 'My two [American] friends ... are trying to work out something for me so that I’ll be able to leave here and live with them. We get on very well together and love one another and the ‘permissive society’ is greatly to be commended” (9 July 1970)', Janet Frame to May Sarton' - who remained friends with the author, though not without some twists and turns, until her death in 2004.

Burger-Utzer, Brigitta and Stefan Grissemann

Frank Films - the Film and Video Work of Robert FrankGraz: Scalo. First Austrian edition, 2003. Exhibition catalogue. Twenty-five illustrated essays working through all of the photographer's film and video work, from Pull My Daisy (1959) to Paper Route (2002); biography, bibliography, list of illustrations and stills. Parallel German and English text throughout.

Frank, Robert

Me and My BrotherGottingen: Steidl. First German edition, 2007. Facsimile of the screenplay of Robert Frank's 1969 movie about Julius Orlovsky, 52pp., illustrated. Screenplay credited to Sam Shepard, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Robert Frank. English text.

Printed wrappers with transparent dustwrapper and dvd of the movie tipped in inside rear cover. All fine.Enquire about this book

Greenough, Sarah edits

Looking In - Robert Frank's The AmericansWashington: National Gallery of Art. First American edition, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, the forensic analysis of The Americans. Reproduces the original 83 photographs (first published in France in 1958 then the United States in 1959) and adds biographical and background essays on Frank, the Guggenheim Fellowship; maps and chronology of Frank's journey, reproduces his proof sheets and roughs; and with essays by Luc Sante, Stuart Alexander, Philip Brockman and others.

Green, Jack

Fire the Bastards!Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press. First American edition, 1992. Introduction by Steven Moore. Standing up for The Recognitions or, more accurately, attacking the nature of the critical reception on its first publication.

Gaita, Raymond

Romulus, My FatherMelbourne: Text. Reprint, 2008. Accumulating the requirements for a contemporary classic. Tenth anniversary edition and, according to the copyright page, reprinted 20 times since first publication in 1998; signed by the author.

Davies, Isabel

Monthly Cycle - the Women's Art Game[Melbourne]: 1981-1982. Aim of the game: 'To work in your studio as many days as possible and make progress in the art world eventually gaining your first solo exhibition.' Rules, preparation, bonuses and handicaps - each player has a home in suburbia, a husband or partner and a child - all set out. Originally an inclusion in LIP: Australian Feminist Arts Journal, Melbourne, No 5, 1981-1982.

Single sheet measuring 60 x78cms. Unplayed, all cards ready to be cut out and play to begin.Enquire about this book

Hanley, James

Ebb and FloodLondon: John Lane The Bodley Head. First English edition, 1932. The third novel by the prolific author; concerned with the relationship between three young Liverpuldian boys and the deaf and dumb mother of the eldest of them. Hanley territory.

Shapiro, Harriet curates

Literary Lives – the World of Francis Steegmuller and Shirley HazzardNew York: The New York Society Library. First American edition, 2010. Catalogue of the exhibition at New York’s oldest library with short essays and memoirs by Mark Bartlett, Jonathan Galassi, Harriet Shapiro, Richard Howard and Caroline Weber; long interview with Shirley Hazzard, checklist of publications by Francis Steegmuller and her; and many colour photographs of them in Italy.

Highsmith, Patricia

Tom RipleyNew York: Coward McCann, Alfred A. Knopf, Doubleday, Lippincott and Crowell. All first American editions, 1955-1992. The five Tom Ripley novels - The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955), Ripley Under Ground (1970), Ripley's Game (1974), The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980) and Ripley Under Water (1992) - aka Ripliad. Tom Ripley is a not untypical protagonist for the second half of the twentieth century – a likeable sociopath, heroic and demonic, energetic and amoral, overcivilised and undersensitised, with, as an American in Europe, some literary ancestry – who has been so thoughtfully constructed for the reader that “Reading the book[s] becomes exquisitely uncomfortable. [They are] perfectly engineered to make us give our sympathies to the wrong man. To rejoice, even, when luck is on his side ... we get so deep inside his head”.
Twenty-six years after the last Ripley, and twenty-two years after his creator’s death, his appeal continues. He has been played in movies, television and radio, to date, by Alain Delon, Jonathan Kent, Matt Damon, John Malkovich, Barry Pepper and Ian Hart. Or, the search continues for the definitive Ripley.Ripley’s Game is inscribed by the author in 1976; laid in are three aerogrammes from Patricia Highsmith to the recipient, all typed, letters signed, 1976-1977, literary news, her work, plans to meet, “Yes, I no sooner struck ------ with a little buckshot, than I was whammed in the Observer 20 Nov. With an awful photo and a not very sympathetic article. So much for 8 hours of my time.”

The Talented Mr. Ripley has some edgewear, label of the Jaffe Agency, otherwise fine in first issue dustwrapper evenly sunned on the spine. The Boy Who Followed Ripley is a review copy with promotional material, including a photograph of the author, laid in. Ripley's Game is near fine in a fine dustwrapper. Ripley Under Water is fine in dustwrapper. The five vols. and three aerogrammesEnquire about this book

The Newcastle HeraldNewcastle, NSW: 1980-1990s. A small collection of newspaper banners from The Newcastle Herald from the 1980s and, mostly, the 1990s. The Newcastle Herald is a Fairfax owned tabloid for Newcastle, the largest non-capital city in Australia, the Hunter region and the Central Coast. The collection contains 134 banners: 1980 (1 banner), 1986 (4 banners), 1992 (75 banners) and 1994 (54 banners). The banners run to between 25 and 35 characters each (Twitter allows 140). Allowing for the restricted format, the banners possess a degree of variety within a strict hierarchy where any news item relevant to the Newcastle region – abbreviated to“Hunter”, “Valley” or “HV” here – takes precedence over state, national and international news. For example: “Valley Boy Missing”, “Threat to Hunter Mine”, “HV Murder: Creek Body Identified”, “Education: New Move in Hunter” and “Strangled: HV Woman Found Nude”. Once the Newcastle region is established, the general tabloid preference for deaths, sudden preferred; dismissal, deposed, or resigning, without notice or unexpectedly preferred; murders or convictions of public figures; confessions involving secrets or revelations, containing a scandalous element; all kick in. If none of these are present, then the headlines become more vague, keywords come into play: “interest rates”, “unemployment”, “price rises” and are presented in a manner invoking anxiety, fear, panic, falling short of hysteria, but carrying the promise of explanation once a copy has been purchased.

All two colour banners on newsprint, all 60 x 40cms., no duplicates, sorted chronologically. A couple with edges frayed, overall all very good or better. The collection, 134 bannersEnquire about this book

Imazu, Kyoko

FollowingMelbourne: Episodic Press. First Australian edition, 2016. The other world inside this one; illustrated by the author, designed by Stephen Horsley. 150 numbered copies, signed by the author; the first title in a proposed series.

Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine in cardboard record single sleeve in plastic sleeve as issued.Enquire about this book

Calvino, Italo

Italian FablesNew York: The Orion Press. First American edition, 1959. Fifty-three stories, from all the regions, the first selection of Calvino's retelling of Italian folktales to appear in English; translated by Louis Brigante, illustrated by Michael Train.

Jabes, Edmond

If There Were Anywhere But DesertBarrytown, NY: Station Hill Press. First American edition, 1988. The author's selected poems for 1943-1979; introduction by Paul Auster, afterword 'The Delirium of Meaning' by Robert Duncan; translation by Keith Waldrop, parallel French English text throughout.

Hodgkinson, Anthony W and Rodney E. Sheratsky

Humphrey Jennings - More than a Maker of FilmsHanover: University Press of New England. First American edition, 1982. Poet, artist, filmmaker, author of Pandaemonium 1660-1886: the Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers, and co-founder of the Mass Observation movement, 60 years before Google.

Gorman, Herbert

James JoyceNew York: Farrar and Rinehart. First American edition, 1939. The prolific author’s second biography of Joyce (the first was James Joyce – His First Forty Years, published 1925), completed 15 November 1939, fourteen months before its subject's death; illustrated, 351pp. plus index.

Svevo, Italo

James JoyceNew York: New Directions. First American edition, 1950. Svevo's speech delivered in Milan in 1927, translated here by Stanislaus Joyce, and issued as a Christmas keepsake by James Laughlin for the friends of New Directions; #593/1500 numbered copies, total edition 1,600 copies.

Printed wrappers. Fine in dustwrapper creased a little at edges; book measures 10 x 7.75cms.Enquire about this book

Ellmann, Richard

The Backgrounds of UlyssesGambier, OH: The Kenyon Review, 1954. After his Yeats’ biography (published 1948), Ellmann begins putting the foundations in place for his Joyce (published 1959) and analyses the author’s gleaning process for Ulysses, “His [Joyce] work is ‘history fabled’, not only in Portrait but in Ulysses and his other writings as well. He was never a creator ex nihilo, he put together what he remembered and he remembered most of what he had seen or had heard other people remember. The latter category was, in a city given over to anecdote, a large one. His art, as the following pages attempt to demonstrate, was a continual transposition and re-composition of known materials.”, 50pp; inscribed by the author - 'with admiration for his book' - to Herbert Gorman, the first biographer of Joyce; B2 acknowledges B1.

Kahlo, Frida

The Diary of Frida Kahlo - an Intimate Self-PortraitLondon: Bloomsbury. First English paperback edition, [1998]. The artist's illustrated journal for 1944-1954, the last ten years of her life; facsimile of the journal followed by translation and commentary; introduction by Carlos Fuentes, commentary by Sarah Lowe.

Jones, James H.

Alfred C. Kinsey - a Public / Private LifeNew York: W.W. Norton. First American edition, 1997. The biography of the outstanding figure in the study of human sexuality during the 20th century; 930+pp including index.

Lee, Jack

De Ukuelige (A Town Like Alice)Copenhagen: 1957. Original Danish poster for Jack Lee's adaptation of Nevil Shute's A Town Like Alice, released in Denmark on 27 February 1957. The movie had various titles worldwide. All removed the local reference to Alice Springs in favour of mostly references to Malaya or 'returns', the Danes went for 'The Indomitable'.

Lee, Jack

Spor I Sandet (Robbery Under Arms)Copenhagen: 1958. Original Danish poster for Robbery Under Arms released there 0n 6 January 1958. The tree in the top left is the last element in the design resembling anything Australian, the remainder are the familiar ingredients of man, woman, gun and what looks like a couple of docile Mexicans in the background.

Rauchbaur, Otto

Shane Leslie: Sublime FailureDublin: The Lilliput Press. First Irish edition, 2009. Revisionist biography for this most cosmopolitan of individuals; illustrated, 50 letters and extracts of other writing by Leslie, family tree and chronology.

Kramer, Hilton

Richard LindnerBoston: New York Graphic Society. First American edition, 1975. Fifty-six tipped in colour plates, 115 b&w reproductions, catalogue raisonne 1968-1974, chronology, bibliography, text by Kramer, covering Lindner's career from his arrival in the USA in 1941 and concentrating on the overlap of his work and the Pop Art movement.

L[ucas], E.V. and G[eorge] M[orrow]

What a Life!London: Collins. Second English edition, 1987. First published in 1911 using a Whiteley's catalogue and a modest text; now a graphic novel, a collage one as well, and an ancestor of Terry Gillam's Monty Python television animations.

Delbridge, Arthur. Editor-in-Chief

The Macquarie DictionarySt. Leonards, NSW: Macquarie Library. First Australian edition, 1981. Originally based on the second edition of Webster's dictionary and refined through six editions into the authority on English in Australia; the seventh edition is due for publication in early 2017; inscribed by Arthur Delbridge in the year of publication.

To No One Will We Sell Deny Or Defer Right Or JusticeMurrumbateman, NSW: The Vagantes Press., 2015. 'A broadside printed for the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta that comments on its exclusion of coverage to women, villeins (peasants or tenant farmers) and Jews. Printed on Fabriano Rosaspina paper, with the larger letters from wood type, the M and C of Magna Carta in Goudy Cloister decorative capitals, and the 'for women' phrase (a partially hidden alternative reading, intended to follow the words in large type) blind embossed in a small black letter font. The lack of visibility of these words symbolises the invisibility of the people it describes in Magna Carta' - publisher's note.

Malouf, David

Neighbours in a ThicketSt. Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press. First Australian paperback edition, 1974. The author's second collection; inscribed by him to Geoff and Ninette Dutton in the year of publication.

Grassi, Emily

MannerismFlorence: Scala Group. First edition, 2011. Italian art in the sixteenth century then its manifestations in France, Spain, Germany and Holland; 100+ colour reproductions, most full page; text in English, German, Dutch and Spanish.

Richardson, Matthew

The West and the Map of the World - a Reappraisal of the PastMelbourne: The Miegunyah Press and the State Library of Victoria. First Australian edition, 2010. Maps from the State Library of Victoria chip away at the Eurocentric view of the world; 100+ reproductions from the collection; inscribed by the author to Betty Churcher.

Marias, Javier

Your Face TomorrowNew York: New Directions. First American editions, 2005-2009. Three volumes, complete: Dance and Dream, Fever and Spear, and Poison, Shadow and Farewell; the shaggiest of shaggy dog detective novels with the author's mantra - 'I progress as I digress' - at full throttle.

Avermaete, Roger

Frans MasereelNew York: Rizzoli. First American edition, 1977. The world in a woodblock: 350+ b&w reproductions, 4 tipped-in colour plates, biography; bibliography and catalogue by Pierre Vorms and Hanns-Conon von der Gabelentz, running to 62pp., chronology; life may be in colour, but black and white is more real.

Mathews, Harry

The Sinking of the Odradek StadiumManchester: Carcanet. First English edition, 1985. An epistolary novel, and a quest one, with an index; published fourteen years after its first appearance in four issues of The Paris Review.

Mathews, Harry

Armenian Papers, Poems 1954-1984Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. First American edition, 1987. The novelist's first and only selected poems which concludes with the long sequence written after a visit to the Armenian monastery of San Lazzaro in Venice.

Meggendorfer, Lothar and Maurice Sendak

The Genius of Lothar MeggendorferLondon: Jonathan Cape. First English edition, 1985. Appreciation by Maurice Sendak, introduction by Waldo H. Hunt; monograph on the 19th century German cartoonist renowned for his pop-up books; six full page colour moving images with accompanying verse, the last image with the mechanism revealed on the verso.

Meyrink, Gustav

The GolemLondon: Victor Gollancz. First English edition, 1928. The modernist fantasy, originally published in serial form between December 1913 and August 1914, as a book in 1915, selling 200,000 copies, and which continues the tradition of Prague golem stories beginning with Rabbi Loew’s in the 16th century. Robert Irwin has noted, 'Meyrink does not rehash the established historical ingredients; he was significantly a contemporary of Prague’s other fantasist. We have the Castle which is not Kafka's Castle, the Trial which is not Kafka's Trial, and a Prague which is not Kafka's Prague.' Dustwrapper designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer.

Owner stamp, prelims and extremities foxed, else very good in dustwrapper with remnants of tape bleed on the reverse.Enquire about this book

Brophy, John and Eric Partridge edit

Songs and Slang of the British Soldier: 1914-1918London: Eric Partridge, the Scholartis Press. Second edition, revised and enlarged, 1930. The first of the New Zealand born lexicographer's dictionaries of slang and unconventional English: songs, chants and sayings, extensive glossary, appendixes of, eg, 'songs accompanying bugle calls'; lyrics to some songs expurgated, generally when the anatomy or intimate activities are involved - 'We are the heroes of the night / And we'd sooner _____ than fight / We're the heroes of the Stand-Back Fusiliers' - and become the more explicit for it.

Edgewear, two pages opened roughly. Very good in dustwrapper chipped at edges. 1,000 copies.Enquire about this book

Moorhouse, Frank

The Edith TrilogySydney: Picador and Knopf. First Australian editions, 1993-2001. Three vols., the Edith Campbell Berry Trilogy complete: Grand Days, Dark Palace and Cold Light; beginning on the train from Paris to Geneva and ending with a heart stopping, 1,800+pp; Grand Days signed by the author.

Edgwear to Cold Light, else the three vols. all fine in near fine dustwrappers. The three vols.Enquire about this book

Arnold, Ann

Addie and ZikaBerkeley, CA: Ian Jackson. First American edition, 2017. The protagonists are a mosquito and virus. Their literary lineage reaches back to Dr. Seuss and Munro Leaf's World War Two booklet with similar protagonists.

Pictorial wrappers. Fine. With the two flyers issued by the publisher explaining more of the background and the exclusive genre to which Addie and Zika belong.Enquire about this book

The New Australian Cinema 1971-1977London: National Film Theatre, 1976. Program for a season of 30 movies at the National Film Theatre, London; summary and illustration for each movie; Stork, 27A, Pure S, Libido and the more familiar titles.

Urwand, Ben

The Collaboration - Hollywood's Pact with HitlerCambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. First American edition, 2013. The business relationship between the Hollywood studios and the Nazi party through the 1930s, a different take on 'the genius of the system'; inscribed by the author.

Mulisch, Harry

The Discovery of HeavenNew York: Viking. First American edition, 1996. The author's epic concerned with two angels' celestial project and the friendship between Max, Onno and Ada, the project's earthly agents.

Murray, Les A

Lunch & Counter LunchCremorne, NSW: Angus and Robertson. First Australian paperback edition, 1974. The poet's third solo collection; inscribed by him in the year of publication to ' _____ with affection and thanks (next time I'll write a letter, too!)'.

Fergusson, Maggie edits

Treasure Palaces - Great Writers Visit Great MuseumsLondon: The Economist Books. First English edition, 2016. A selection from Intelligent Life, the publisher's magazine. Twenty-five contributors including Julian Barnes, Alan Hollinghurst, William Boyd, Roddy Doyle and Tim Winton, a B item, at the National Gallery of Victoria; signed by the editor.

Nabokov, Vladimir

Nabokov's ButterfliesBoston: Beacon Press. First American edition, 2000. Nabokov’s unpublished and uncollected writings, edited and annotated by Brian Boyd and Robert Michael Pyle, new translations from the Russian by Dmitri Nabokov.
Or, previously unpublished, written between 1908-1977, including the 40pp. afterword to The Gift; newly translated poems and letters; lectures, articles, reviews and interviews; an extract from the uncompleted 'Butterflies of Europe', as well as drawings by Nabokov, and family photographs.

Neruda, Pablo

Three Odes[Berkeley, CA]: Tangram. First edition of these translations, 2005. 'The House of Odes', 'Ode to the Critic' and 'Ode to Clear Light', translated by Joseph Stroud; printed by letterpress on mould made paper.

Neugroschel, Joachim edits and translates

The GolemNew York: Norton. First American edition, 2006. Stories of a very task specific superhero and containing 'The Golem or the Miraculous Deeds of Rabbi Leyb' by Yudl Rosenberg (1904), selections from 'Yiddish Folktales' and 'Legends of Old Prague' by S. Bastomski (1923), 'The Golem' by Dovid Frishman (1922) and 'The Golem' by H.Leivick (1920).

Niedecker, Lorine

Blue ChicoryNew Rochelle, NY: The Elizabeth Press. First American edition, 1976. Tidying up after the poet's death - fragments, unpublished and others - edited and introduced by Cid Corman; up to the poet's last recorded words, 'I think lines of poetry that I might use - all day long and even in the night' (15 November 1970).

Lynn, Elwyn

Sidney Nolan - Myth and ImageryLondon: Macmillan. First English edition, 1967. Sixty-nine reproductions, 14 colour, beginning in 1937, including the collages from the early 1940s, and on through Ned Kelly, Burke and Wills, a portrait of Rimbaud, and travels in Africa; index runs from African paintings to Judith Wright; signed by Elwyn Lynn and Sidney Nolan.

Thomas, Frank edits

The Australasian Health and Sunshine ReviewSydney: H&S Publications, [1950s]. Three issues #4, 9 and 11. Nudism in Australia during the 1950s: articles - 'How I Became ...', 'Naturist Progress in Tasmania', 'Breaking an Outworn Tabu' - photographs, mostly women, some group scenes, a Ruskinian airbrush at work for areas below the waist and above the knees; classifieds, reports from overseas, local and New Zealand clubs; 32-50pp. per issue.

Wright, A.E.

Round the World as a Specialty SalesmanSan Francisco: The author. Third edition, [1915]. Sub-titled, 'Selling American goods in Australia, S.Africa, England, France, Canada and USA'; travels, tips, anecdotes, theories of selling, 95pp; one of the early invaders.

Pictorial wrappers, featuring an image of what looks like the South African leg, stapled rusted, else fine.Enquire about this book

The First New Zealand Whole Earth CatalogueWellington, New Zealand: Alister Taylor. First New Zealand edition, 1972. The local supplement to The Last Whole Earth Catalog, endorsed by Steve Jobs as, '... an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. ... It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along. It was idealistic and overflowing with neat tools and great notions'.

Pirandello, Luigi

Horse in the MoonNew York: E.P. Dutton. First American edition, 1932. Twelve stories selected from the author's monumental 'Stories for the Year Round', a fictional encyclopedia of Sicily and Sicilianess.

Pienkowski, Jan

GossipLondon: Gallery Five. First English edition, 1983. Our oxygen: six spectacular pop-ups of animals' mouths working; and, if the Czechs are the foremost pop-up book artists, this expatriate Pole is a close second.

Jackson, Ian

The Chaste Mouse and the Wanton MouseSouth Lunenburg, VT: Stinehour Editions. Second edition, 2016. Illustrations in colour by Ann Arnold. First published with the illustrations in black and white in 2002. A raunchy parody of the Peter Rabbit books, replicating the format, and beginning, 'There was a mouse; she had a twin: / One mouse was Virtue; one was Sin;' the activities of both twins are vigorously described and illustrated.

Raine, Henry B.

The Lash EndSydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Company. First Australian paperback edition, 1933. Returned soldiers from World War One become tangled up with Chinese gangsters in the Sydney underworld. The sequel to The Whip Hand, see cover?

Pynchon, Thomas

Gravity's RainbowNew York, Athens GA, Portland ORE: Viking, University of Georgia Press and TinHouse Books. First American editions, 1973-2006. Three volumes: Gravity's Rainbow (1973), Gravity's Rainbow Companion by Steven Weisenburger (1988) and Gravity's Rainbow Illustrated by Zak Smith (2006), the primary text, companion and illustrated version. Has any novel published since World War Two produced a similar offspring? Enough has been said or written about Gravity's Rainbow; the Companion, 15 years later, works its way through the book, cross referenced to the Viking edition here, translating, explaining references, clarifying locations, dates and times, characters and events; the illustrated version, 18 years later, runs to 760pp., ie one illustration for each page of Gravity's Rainbow. Viking objected to the title of the illustrated version. Copies were recalled and it was reissued as Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity Rainbow. The copy here is the first issue signed by Zak Smith and Steve Erickson, who wrote the introduction. The primary text and its two very different companions of a 20th century fictional encyclopedia.

Gravity's Rainbow and the Companion both fine in dustwrapper, Gravity's Rainbow Illustrated is pictorial wrappers, fine. The three vols.Enquire about this book

Queneau, Raymond

ZazieParis, London, New York: Olympia Press, Harper and Brothers, The Bodley Head, Bantam, Corgi, John Calder. Combination of first editions and reprints., 1959-1982. Six English editions of Zazie dans le metro, first published in France in 1959 and the author's first commercially popular novel. Two translations here: the first English language by Akbar del Piombo [possibly Norman Rubington] and Eric Kahane, published in France, with illustrations by Jacqueline Duheme; the five other editions are all Barbara Wright's translation. All are titled Zazie, except for the later Calder reprint which returns to the original title and reproduces an image of Catherine Demongeot from the movie version for the cover. The other five editions struggle with the image of Zazie, the existence of the movie version notwithstanding, and move between pen and ink, watercolour and photographs to capture something of her sexuality, Frenchness, age and precociousness; their taglines all agree that she is French, 'A burlesque stream of Parisian perversion, our era's Alice in Wonderland', 'Exactly what foreigners think French novels ought to be'. Queneau is concerned with some of these issues but also with the combination of styles, register and classes of language, or “Doukipudonktan”, which begins the novel in French is translated here as “Holifart watastink” and “Howcanaystinksotho”.

All six copies have some edgewear and are tanned around the extremities, the American first hardcover has a piece missing from the top of the front panel and is a review copy with a b&w photograph of the cover image of Zazie laid in; overall all about very good. The six copiesEnquire about this book

Queneau, Raymond

One Hundred Million Million Poems[Paris]: Kickshaws. First English language edition, 1983. First published in French in 1961, English version by John Crombie; Instructions for Use by Queneau, introduction by the translator; #394/500 numbered copies, hand set and printed in Bodoni on Arches rag paper. The author's self-proclaimed 'DIY kit for making poems: a limited number of poems, it is true, but sufficient nevertheless to keep the reader reading for almost two hundred million years ...' Or, ten sonnets to the power of 14, able to be read here with each page cut into 14 slivers, one for each line, pages bound together, and where any combination of lines from the ten sonnets can be read at will to a total of, see title above.

Radiguet, Raymond

The Devil in the FleshNew York: Harrison Smith. First American edition, 1932. The first of the author's two novels; translated by Kay Boyle, introduced by Aldous Huxley; first published in 1923 and concerned, scandalously at the time, with the affair between a sixteen year old and a young married woman whose husband is fighting at the front. The first English edition appeared in 1949.

Fine in dustwrapper with a short closed tear on the front panel and a couple of nicks around the spine.Enquire about this book

Raven, Simon

The World of Simon RavenLondon: Prion. First edition of this collection, 2002. Selected and edited by by Howard Watson, introduction by Anthony Blond. Sixteen pieces including 'Raven Sahib', 'The Serpent in Happy Valley', 'Charterhouse Pink I', some by Fielding Gray, his fictional alter ego; a fair introduction to this prolific author whose obituary in The Independent begins, 'Simon Raven was a cad. He had a passion for privilege, no sense of obligation, a fondness for beans on toast, and too much guilt about tipping waiters to be regarded as a gentleman'.

Robinson, Marilynne

HousekeepingIowa City: Empyrean Press. First American edition, 2016. An extract from 'Housekeeping' published to celebrate the author's twenty-five years' teaching and service at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. #171/225 numbered copies signed by Marilynne Robinson; illustration 'Lake Coeur d'Alene' by Viza Arlington; printed from Rialto types on Rives paper by Shari DeGraw.

Roth, Joseph

Anti-ChristNew York: The Viking Press. First American edition, 1935. A diatribe against the contemporary Western World, written as an exile from Germany after Hitler's appointment as Chancellor in 1933.

Original black cloth with printed label. One small stamp from the American Jewish Committee with a withdrawn stamp below it, owner signature and a small numerical annotation on the dedication page, else fine with what looks like a trimmed rear panel of the original dustwrapper laid in.Enquire about this book

Milner, John

Kenneth RowntreeLondon: Lund Humphries. First English edition, 2002. The first monograph on the artist, chronology of his life by Diana Rowntree. Signed by the author and inscribed by the Rowntrees to Betty and Roy Churcher. Laid in is an autograph letter signed from Diana Rowntree to Betty Churcher, sending the book, commenting on the colour of the reproductions and noting, 'A recent history of the Royal College of Art contains the sentence, '... the painting school had students of the calibre of David Hockney, John Bratby, Peter Blake and Betty Cameron'' [later Churcher].

Shakespeare, William

Woes End [Sonnet 30]Murrumbateman, NSW: The Vagantes Press, 2016. Linocut by Morgyn Phillips, printed by her and Michael Richards at the Vagantes Press. In January 2016, the Bodleian Library made an appeal to hand-press printers worldwide for newly printed copies of all 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets. “Printers took up the challenge with great enthusiasm,” the library reported in November, “and the Bodleian has now received sonnets from more than a dozen countries in languages ranging from Armenian and Polish to Scots and Welsh.” And The Vagantes Press’s setting of Sonnet 30, set in Koch Antiqua.

Simenon, Georges

Maigret AbroadNew York: Harcourt Brace and Company. First American edition, 1940. Two complete Maigrets: A Crime in Holland and At the Gai-Moulin, both originally published in 1931; Simenon's breakout year: 11 Maigrets were published that year in France.

A beautiful copy. Fine in dustwrapper with light wear at the crown and base of the spine. Printed on the rear panel: the famous claim - 'His rooters are a Who's-Who of two continents' and they include Stefan Zweig, T.S.Eliot, Claude Rains, Djuna Barnes, Andre Gide, William Saroyan, William Steig, Rockwell Kent, 22 other contemporary notables listed - needed as much by the author for his self-image of serious novelist as the publisher to promote the book.Enquire about this book

Simenon, Georges

Maigret and Monsieur LabbeNew York: Harcourt Brace and Company. First American edition, 1942. Death of a Harbour-Master (a Maigret, first published in 1932) and The Man from Everywhere (first published in 1931, the same year that he published eleven Maigrets in French) featuring Superintendent Labbe and not Maigret.

Review copy with publisher's stamp and date of publication on the front free endpaper. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with some creasing at the crown and base of the spine.Enquire about this book

Avenge Singapore! Unite for VictoryNew York: New York State Committee Communist Party, [1942]. Reprinted from The Daily Worker of 17 February 1942 (two days after the fall of Singapore) and calling for a united mobilisation, 'To answer the ruthless violence of the enemy, America needs a greater machinery for war violence. Army and Navy, ready to strike anywhere in the world where the enemy ravages his victims'.

Broadside measuring 35 x 21cms., printed on newsprint, recto only, evenly tanned, a couple of chips. Near fine.Enquire about this book

Svevo, Italo

Confessions of ZenoNew York: Alfred A. Knopf. First American edition, 1930. First published by the author in 1923, this English translation by Beryl De Zoete seven years later, a second translation by William Weaver seventy years after that; and whose narrator – the charming, neurotic, prescient and faithfully unreliable Zeno Cosini – continues to gather admirers.

Price, Stanley

James Joyce and Italo Svevo - the Story of a FriendshipBantry, Cork, Ireland: Somerville Press Pty Ltd. First Irish edition, 2016. The two writers' lives: their friendship, families, the long writing of their two most famous novels, and a little more on Svevo's contributions to Ulysses and Joyce's to Zeno.

Trevor, William

Juliet's StoryNew York: Simon and Schuster. First American edition, 1991. The author's first book for children; inscribed by the author to Morris Lurie and with a short autograph note from Trevor to Lurie thanking him for a book and inviting him to stay if he is in England.

Trevor, William

Excursions in the Real WorldToronto: Alfred A. Knopf. First Canadian edition, 1993. Twenty-nine autobiographical sketches beginning, 'Places do not die as people do, but they often change so fundamentally that little is left of what they once were'; signed by the author.

Van Allsburg, Chris

The Wreck of the ZephyrBoston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. First American edition, 1983. Illustrated by the author; published before Polar Express, and concerned with events leading up to a shipwreck.

Goy, Richard

Venice - the City and Its ArchitectureLondon: Phaidon Press. First English edition, 1997. Interiors, exteriors, architectural plans, artworks representing the city, illustrated; and a history from the wooden piles up of the 118 islands, aka Venice.

Waugh, Evelyn, Diana Cooper and Nancy Mitford

LettersLondon: Hodder and Stoughton. First English editions, 1991, 1996. Two vols: 'The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh', edited by Charlotte Mosley and 'Mr. Wu and Mrs. Stitch - the Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper', edited by Artemis Cooper; both sides of both correspondences, illustrations, both indexed, 860+pp.

Ward, Geoffrey C. edits

The West - an Illustrated HistoryLondon: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. First English edition, 1996. The book of the PBS documentary of the same title. An illustrated history of a mythology with a number of conflicting versions. Eight chapters covering people, movements and places including: Hispanic people, Wilderness, Pioneers, Monument Valley; 150+ 19th century reproductions.

Clarke, Stephan P. compiles and edits

The Lord Peter Wimsey CompanionHurtspierpoint, West Sussex: The Dorothy L. Sayers Society. Second edition, 2002. An illustrated, alphabetical companion to every aspect of the novels running to 642pp., calendars for the years 1920-1941 to help with ongoing project of establishing the timeline of the stories and novels; index and, for reasons best explained by Mr. Clarke, 'The Rosemonde', first published in English in 1894; a couple of turns tighter than a labour of love.

Winton, Tim

Remarque, Erich Maria

All Quiet on the Western FrontBoston: Little, Brown and Co. First American edition, 1929. Originally published in a German newspaper in November and December 1928, then a book in Germany in January the following year, this edition in June the same year, 2.5 million copies sold in 22 languages during 1929-1930; the English title, like Catch-22, has been absorbed into common usage.

Hasek, Jaroslav

The Good Soldier: SchweikNew York: Doubleday Doran. First American edition, 1930. Across Austria and Hungary during World War One with a resourceful combatant who, twenty-five years later, became the inspiration for Yossarian in Catch-22.

Cobb, Humphrey

Paths of GloryNew York: The Viking Press. First American edition, 1935. The first of the author’s two novels, adapted for the stage in the same year as publication, and twenty-two years later for the cinema by Stanley Kubrick.

Shadow where bookplate has been removed from front pastedown, small mark rear endpaper, very good in lightly rubbed. creased, first issue, dustwrapper.Enquire about this book

Weir, Peter

Gli Anni Spezzati (Gallipoli)Rome: 1982. Eight original lobby cards for the Italian release of Gallipoli, premiered there on 7 May 1982. The familiar scenes - preparation, protagonists, Egyptian R&R - with the climax of the movie in different form at the left of each card.

Chevallier, Gabriel

FearNew York: NYRB. First American edition, 2014. The author's first book, an autobiographical novel of life in the trenches during World War One and some distance from his well known Clochemerle series. First published in France in 1930, withdrawn in 1939, this first English translation published in 2011 by Serpent's Tail; introduction by John Berger.

Yorke, Susan

Naked to Mine EnemiesNew York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. First American edition, 1952. The second novel by the German born Australian author who arrived here in 1965 by way of China, India, the United States and Argentina.

Zampa, Luigi

Wloch Szuka Zony (An Italian Looking for a Wife)Warsaw: 1974. Original Polish poster for A Girl in Australia [original title: Bello, onesto, emigrato Australia sposerebbe compaesana illibata]. Filmed in Australia in February and March 1971 and concerned with the complications produced by an Italian migrant advertising for an Italian wife and a reply from a Roman prostitute seeking a new life. The design’s illustration is concerned with images of Italianess - admittedly Alberto Sordi’s, the male lead - and brides, with the lorikeet on Sordi’s head and some greenery the only possible references to the movie’s setting.